National Gallery of Art - THE COLLECTION
image of Combined Toilet and Writing Table (toilette à transformations) Jean-François Leleu (cabinetmaker)
French, 1729 - 1807
Combined Toilet and Writing Table (toilette à transformations), c. 1764/1775
veneered on oak with tulipwood, kingwood, pearwood, purplewood, sycamore, holly, boxwood, and ebony, some of the woods being originally stained green and other colors; drawers partially of mahogany; sparsely mounted with gilded bronze
overall: 70.5 x 55.8 x 39.3 cm (27 3/4 x 21 15/16 x 15 1/2 in.)
Widener Collection
1942.9.422
On View
From the Tour: Neoclassical Decorative Arts of the Late 1700s
Object 1 of 6
1942Works of Art from the Widener Collection. Foreword by David Finley and John Walker. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 18, as Louis XV (signed: I. E.).

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